Timothy Birdnow

Trump's lawyers argued in court "there is nothing wrong with a candidate trying to influence an election - it's called democracy".

They are absolutely correct. A man running for office is not required to disclose every personal foible, nor is it illegal to pay someone via nondisclosure agreement. There is no underlying crime here.

I suspect that if we are going to prosecute politicians who pay off every bimbo who comes out of the woodwork we are going to have to expand the number of courts.

Certainly Bill Clinton had more than his share of NDA's and in fact had a "bimbo eruption squad" to silence such women. Nobody suggested what he was doing in that regard was illegal.

In fact Mr. Clinton's people got Monica Lewinsky a job in New York to get her out of D.C. when the story first broke about their affair. No Republican suggested investigating that action then, even though it was obvious it was done to cover up a crime.

Clinton was prone to many such crimes and "election interference". He had his own brother kidnapped the day before the election and held so he couldn't screw things up at the last minute in the '92 election, for instance. But because Roger Clinton didn't press charges - and his brother now controlled the federal law enforcement authority - it went nowhere.

But Donald Trump gives a porn star who clearly hates him a few dollars to go away and he's guilty of destroying the rule of law in the minds of the press and of the despicable state of New York.

There IS a crime here, but it's being committed by the folks prosecuting the former President.

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